What if you (as a teacher, construction worker, caterer, beautician, attorney, or whatever profession you are in)--what if you lost your job? What if your spouse got sick and you had no insurance and you lost everything including your home? What if you had no relatives to take you in? What if you then had no place to live? Would you still be a beautician or whatever you had been? Or, would you just be a "homeless person"? What would you want people to think about you? Would you want them to know more about you than just that you had no place to live? By this time you may think I'm just rambling, but trust me, I'm not.
I ask you these questions because we often use the term "homeless" as if it is some sort of identity label that tells a lot about a person. But it's really only a small part of who a person is. We often know people for years without ever knowing where they live.
My next novel is set in a homeless shelter and it will allow readers to see a different side of homelessness. I hope you'll read it.
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